1. Conservation and use: changes in materials and values Dinah Eastop CollAsia/London, UK

2. What are we conserving? as found OR as new

3. People change over time. Objects change over time. e.g. Dinah - young

4. People change over time. Objects change over time.

5. People change over time. Objects change over time.

6. People order things... and are ordered by things ‘people categorise and organise things and they also understand the world according to meanings contained in their artefacts.’

7. Ikat cloth collected in Sarawak, c. 1890

8. Conservator asked to preserve two stages in Cloth labeled by famous collector. Labels as important as the cloth.li of this cloth: 1.

9. Conservation interventions change: * relations of the user/viewer with the object * material form of the object * uses of objects * meanings given to objects

10. A gamelan called Ngambar Arun as displayed in Singapore

11. ‘Berlin Aleppo Room’, 2006 display

12. Maori eel-trap, New Zealand, c. 1860 before conservation in 2005

13. Grace Kelly's wedding dress

14. Hollywood film star, MGM Rear Window, 1954

15. Wedding, Monaco,1956

16. Gift to Philadelphia Museum of Art,1956

17. Temporary display in 1956, Philadelphia Museum of Art

18. Materials and construction

19. Aims of intervention? preserve and present - original materials or - original look?

20. Condition Skirt lining before treatment, 2007: weak, torn and no longer stiff

21. New Skirt lining, after treatment Keep original lining

22. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006; Monaco in 2007

23. * power of Hollywood, of expectations * choices about what to preserve, what to present and how * opportunity to think about authenticity, authorship and authority

24. Preservation of original wood and upholstery

25. Restoration to original form ?

26. Re-creation Transparent Tubes, Turnbull, 1968

27. Consolidation – material and social

28. Tradition and innovation – puppets, Bandung, 2016

29. Authenticity “as being authoritative or duly authorized” “as being true in substance” author - authority –authorization who is the author – who decides and on what basis?

30. Blood-stained clothes of King Christian IV of Denmark Preserved at king’s request to show his courage in battle blood preserved

31. Tunic (jacket) collected in 1918 because it was covered in mud from the battle-field Iconic exhibit at the Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra Mud preserved

32. Ash-covered artefacts from Merapi, displayed at Museum Geologi, Bandung – ash preserved

33. Jacket, c. 1620 Replica and Fragments preserved as found: jacket (doublet), 400 years old Replica jacket x Jacket as found and as preserved

34. Before treatment After treatment Cap and bag, c. 1800 as found ……… after conservation evidence of original appearance:

35. Conclusion 1 Objects change over time labels are added colours darken or fade a uniform is covered with mud etc....

36. Conclusion 2 Cultural values given to objects change mud is viewed as evidence corrosion is viewed as patina ash-covered artefacts are preserved as memorials

37. Conclusion 3 People order things... and are ordered by things ‘people categorise and organise things and they also understand the world according to meanings contained in their artefacts.’

38. Thank you Terima Kasih